According to Maria Zakharova, they have to "invent new theses" to keep this Russophobia and Belarusophobia afloat MOSCOW, September 15. /TASS/. The West is creating an alleged threat from the East to mask its own domestic economic problems, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. "This is being done because the situation in Western Europe is catastrophic from the economic point of view, from the point of view of the reckless venture around Ukraine they have plunged into. They